Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 18:23 pm

Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed:

Armenian and Azerbaijan presidents sign historic peace deal at White House

After decades of conflict over the ethnically Armenian-Christian Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a peace deal on Friday, Aug. 8.

Pashinyan hailed the moment as “opening a chapter of peace” and “laying foundations to a better story than the one we had in the past.” Aliyev rejoined that the nations were “writing a great new history.”

The peace deal cemented by U.S. President Donald Trump includes a trade deal that will create a transit corridor between the two countries, to be named the “Trump R

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